The part of a clause that gives information about the theme.
Compare with focus and theme
Example sentencesExamples
- Many of the basic concepts employed in the Prague School functional analyses such as theme/rheme, topic/comment, and given/new do not seem to be clearly defined.
- Over time the term enunciation gave way to rheme, and rheme to comment.
- It is structured as a series of messages consisting of what Halliday calls themes and rhemes.
- The purpose of scanning a scene in this manner is to pick out details and their relations to one another (themes and rhemes).
- I guess I have to admit that I've never heard of the theme/rheme distinction being marked on determiners.